This Year’s Participants

Accelerator Classic
Participants with films at MIFF 2025

Kylie Aoibheann (The Dysphoria)

Bạch Đăng Tùng (Rain Falls Still)

Riley Blakeway (INFINIT3)

Celeste ‘Andy’ Diep (Interview with a Hero)

Raymond Edwards (Ace)

Seth Gabrielsson (5’12”)

Sarah Hegge-Taylor (Pulp)

Ira Hetaraka (Womb)

William Jaka (Faceless)

Fraser Pemberton (Faceless)

Lucy Suess (Pack Rat) 

Louris van de Geer (The Body)

Maxine Zanoni (Lodestar)

Directors selected by VicScreen’s She Directs Initiative

Talia Liddle

Directors selected by Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand

Aroha Awarau 

Jolin Lee

Maza White

Saito Lilo

Directors selected by the South Australian Film Corporation’s Film Lab Initiative

Joshua Barbo

Lilla Berry

Pearl Berry

Directors selected by Screen NSW’s Short to Feature Initiative

Aaron Lucas

Renée Marie Petropoulos

Will Goodfellow

Directors selected by Screen Queensland

Janneke Williamson

Mags Scholes

Directors selected by Screenwest’s West Coast Visions Initiative

Aaron McCann

Charmaine Murray

Matty Limpus